Cândida Ivete Vargas Martins (17 July 1927 – 3 January 1984), commonly known as Ivete Vargas, was a Brazilian journalist and politician.
Political career and background
Ivete Vargas was the daughter of Newton Barbosa Tatsch and Cândida Vargas, niece of President
Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (; ; 19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Due to his long and contr ...
, during the second of whose Presidencies her own political career had already begun.
Ivete Vargas served multiple terms representing
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
as a Federal Deputy.
President of Brazilian Labour Party
In 1979, the military dictatorship lifted its enforcement of a two-party state, allowing pluripartidism. Soon thereafter, the
social-democratic
Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, socia ...
wing of the original PTB, led by
Leonel Brizola
Leonel de Moura Brizola (22 January 1922 – 21 June 2004) was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazil ...
, attempted to recreate the
Brazilian Labour Party, a party founded by Getúlio Vargas of which Brizola had been a member, but the military government instead awarded the name to a group led by Ivete Vargas. Many of her group were politicians who did not follow PTB's historical labourist ideology, conservatives and even former oppositors of the party, which all but ensured that
the new PTB would abandon
leftist politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social hierarchies. Left-wing politic ...
. In response, Brizola instead led his faction to found the
Democratic Labour Party (PDT).
From 1981 until her death in 1984, Ivete Vargas served as President of the Brazilian Labour Party. The new party embraced centrist or slightly right-leaning politics, but since the
conservative wave
The conservative wave (; ), or blue tide (; ), was a right-wing political phenomenon that occurred in the mid-2010s to the early 2020s in Latin America as a direct reaction to the pink tide. During the conservative wave, left-wing governments s ...
in the 2010s, it showed strong support for the government of
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (; born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (Brazil), Chamb ...
,
in addition to affiliating federal deputy
Daniel Silveira, known for making references to
AI-5
The Institutional Act Number Five (), commonly known as AI-5, was the fifth of seventeen extra-legal Institutional Acts issued by the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military dictatorship in the years following the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.
...
.
See also
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Death of Getúlio Vargas
References
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1927 births
1984 deaths
People from São Borja
Brazilian women in politics
Brazilian Labour Party (1981) politicians
Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians
Brazilian Labour Party (historical) politicians
Ivete Vargas
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo
20th-century Brazilian journalists
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